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LOL care to educate us on why a statistical model is unacceptable while a procedural model (also statistical ๐) is acceptable, then? ๐ค I'll wait.
(reality: it's a minor implementation detail and has no relevance to the user)
If you think "AI" and a designed classic algrithm generating things are equivalent, no wonder you hail AI as good... because that is fucking clueless take.
It's literally just implementation and they're both statistical models, but ๐
If you disagree, explain how. I'll wait
When, exactly, did I? I called them both janky dogshit, but simply pointed out the very real hypocrisy of supporting procedural generation while hating generative AI.
There's a number of reasons, not least of which being that generative AI works by processing vast amounts of prior work (without their creators' consent) to make a facsimile of it, while procedural generation only manipulates assets the developer creates. Procedural generation isn't putting artists and writers out of business. Procedural generation isn't making Idiocracy a reality, with fucking English majors unable to read Dickens without asking OpenAI to interpret the text for them. "They do similar things" doesn't mean they're equivalent. My point being, it's not inconsistent to be okay with procedural generation and not okay with generative AI.
this is a fantastic point. well put.